28 August 2014 Last updated at 08:20 Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Pro-Russian rebels enter the strategically-vital port of Novoazovsk on Wednesday Pro-Russian rebels have opened up a new front in south-eastern Ukraine. Reports say they have taken the town of Novoazovsk, on the Sea of Azov, and are heading for [...]

28 August 2014 Last updated at 08:21 Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright: “I won’t resign but I regret that more wasn’t done at the time.” Under-pressure Shaun Wright has resigned from the Labour Party but has insisted he will remain police and crime [...]

27 August 2014 Last updated at 08:30 Royal Bank of Scotland has been fined £14.5m by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for “serious failings” in its mortgage sales business. The City watchdog said RBS did not ensure that it gave suitable mortgage advice to customers. RBS chief executive Ross McEwan said the failings were “unacceptable [...]

27 August 2014 Last updated at 04:50 Vladimir Putin, left, and Petro Poroshenko shook hands at the start of the summit Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says a “roadmap” will be prepared to end fighting between troops and pro-Russian separatists in the east. He was speaking after holding his first direct talks on the crisis with [...]

27 August 2014 Last updated at 08:48 Shaun Wright is a former Labour councillor in Rotherham and was head of children’s services South Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner is facing calls to resign after the publication of a report into widespread child abuse in Rotherham. The study, published on Tuesday, found at least 1,400 children [...]

26 August 2014 Last updated at 07:55 Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Sherlock and Breaking Bad both enjoyed success at this year’s Emmys BBC One drama Sherlock has won a hat-trick of awards at the US Primetime Emmys in Los Angeles. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman won best actor and best [...]

26 August 2014 Last updated at 07:34 Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Steve Rosenberg in Luhansk says there’s “little optimism” ahead of the talks Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is due to take part in talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, at a summit in Minsk, capital of Belarus. The meeting [...]

25 August 2014 Last updated at 22:39 The debate was held before an audience of 200 people at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond and Better Together head Alistair Darling have clashed in their final TV debate ahead of the referendum. Oil revenues, currency and the future of nuclear weapons [...]

25 August 2014 Last updated at 00:35 Mr Salmond and Mr Darling will answer questions on key issues from audience members Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond and Better Together leader Alistair Darling will go head-to-head later in a live TV debate on independence. There are expected to clash on issues such as currency, the NHS [...]

25 August 2014 Last updated at 07:03 The patient was transferred to the Royal Free Hospital under police escort Doctors at a hospital in north-west London have begun treating a Briton who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone. The man has been named as William Pooley, a 29-year-old volunteer nurse, by a US scientist who worked [...]